Work Quotes

“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”

-- Tom Stoppard

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

-- Robert Fulghum

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

-- Aristotle

“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.”

-- Byron Dorgan

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

-- Leonardo da Vinci

“When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.”

-- Calvin Coolidge

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

-- John D. Rockefeller

“I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.”

-- Ellen DeGeneres

“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”

-- John Ruskin

“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”

-- Elbert Hubbard